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Dual Boot with Windows 7 and 8! Windows 7 not working!
Hi everyone. I posted yesterday on my dual booting problem with my partitions but a forum member named gregrocker kindly helped me out throughout the process. Windows 8 worked fine after I installed it and I even signed in and did everything I could on a normal Windows 8 PC. When I booted up my system, I even saw the Windows bootloader menu asking me if I wanted Windows 8 or Windows 7. I picked Windows 8 the first 2 times and it worked fine and then I picked Windows 7 and it launched the HP Automatic Recovery instead of Windows 7. I panicked and I just did I full system restore back to factory condition. Now I can successfully boot into Windows 7 but Windows 8 is gone and the partition that I had created for Windows 8, I just formatted it so it erased everything. The reason I did this is because I want to start over with dual-booting. Can somebody please guide me through the correct steps in dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8 without having this problem again. I still have the partition I created for Windows 8 consisting of 105 GB but its empty right now.